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Extreme Arizona wildfire burns 5000 acres in just 7 hours

By Henry Austin, NBC News contributor Hundreds of people were evacuated in Arizona on Tuesday after a wind-whipped wildfire spread across 5,000 acres in just seven hours.More than 300 firefighters, along with multiple helicopters and aircraft, moved in to tackle the "extreme" blaze which started in "remote, rugged terrain" on the east side of Granite Mountain near Prescott, ...
Arizona Gov. Brewer secures Medicaid expansion

PHOENIX (AP) -- Ending a six-month legislative session, Arizona lawmakers endorsed a key element of President Barack Obama's health care law in a huge political victory for Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, after a lengthy fight over Medicaid expansion that divided the state's Republican ...
Video Arizona wildfire scorches 8 square miles

A wildfire that began Tuesday has scorched nearly eight square miles in Northern Arizona. The fire was within 400 yards of some homes by Tuesday ...
Arizona voting law loses

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned an Arizona law that superimposed citizenship proof on the state's voters as a condition of exercising the ...
Girl Scouts looking forward to building resource center

"Our dream is to have a place for girls," says Debbie Rich, CEO of Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona.The Girl Scouts have taken the first step in making that dream a reality by purchasing the property that once housed the 5 & Diner restaurant at 4330 E. Broadway to make way for a future resource center.Demolition of the run-down diner began Tuesday morning, with a ceremony that ...

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Writing five years ago about Will Ferrells initial step out of his comedic comfort zone into more dramatic acting in the off-beat Hollywood dramedy Stranger Than Fiction (2006), I described Ferrells performance as fine, although its really just subdued; Ferrell never g ... ...

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Rio Rico man facing charges in shooting

A Rio Rico man trying to protect his mother is facing charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man who was attacking her, the Santa Cruz County sheriff said.Raul Vega, 20, was jailed on $50,000 bond in the shooting of a 35-year-old man in the chest with a small-caliber rifle Monday. The shooting occurred at a home in the 500 block of Camino Kansas in Rio Rico."This started out as a ...
Refugee youths talk of their lives display talents

Zamzam Hirsi, one of 26 refugee youths who became U.S. citizens at a ceremony Tuesday, had a simple message for her peers."One way or another, you have not succeeded all by yourself. Appreciate everyone who has helped you little or big," she said to a crowd of a few dozen people gathered at the Tucson High Magnet School auditorium for an event honoring World Refugee Day.Hirsi expressed ...
Woman arrested in husbands death

A 58-year-old Tucson woman was arrested in the shooting death of her husband.Susan Thacker called 911 just after 9 p.m. Monday to report that she shot her husband, Gregory Thacker, 58, Sgt. Maria Hawke, spokeswoman for the Tucson Police Department, said in a news release."The couple engaged in a verbal argument, which escalated to a lengthy confrontation, lasting a few hours," before ...
Tim Steller 2 carpetbaggers hang their hats in Tucson

Embrace the carpetbaggers. That's the message sent last night by the boards of Tucson's two biggest school districts, both of whom made new commitments to superintendents.The Tucson Unified School District board approved hiring H.T. Sanchez by a 4-1 vote.The Sunnyside Unified School District board approved extending Superintendent Manuel Isquierdo's contract by two years, through ...
TUSD hires Sanchez as superintendent

H.T. Sanchez views himself as a simple guy who prefers a T-shirt, jeans and cowboy boots to the suit and tie he's had to wear each day as ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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US top court rules voters don't need citizenship proof

Siding with the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court Monday tossed out a provision in a Arizona state law requiring proof of citizenship for registration as a voter.

With a 7-2 majority, the apex court ruled that the state's voter-approved law interfered with federal law designed to make voter registration easier.

Opponents of the law saw it as an attack on vulnerable voter groups such as minorities, immigrants and the elderly, while the state called the provision a "sensible precaution" to prevent voter fraud.

Civil rights group countered that it added an unconstitutional and burdensome layer of paperwork for tens of thousands of citizens.

The Obama Justice Department opposed the Arizona law, which went beyond what other states have done to ensure integrity in the registration system.

The case focuses on Arizona but the decision would have wider implications as four other states - Alabama, Georgia, Kansas and Tennessee - have similar requirements, and 12 other states are contemplating such legislation.

A single judge of the apex court a year ago blocked the Arizona law from being enforced, while the full court decided internally whether to accept pending appeals for review. ...